Arvada Wedding

Arvada is a city in Jefferson and Adams County, Colorado and part of the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area. As of 2005, the city is estimated to have a total population of 103,966.

The first documented gold discovery here occurred on June 22, 1850. A prospector headed for California, Lewis Ralston, dipped his gold pan into a stream. His return was a $5 gold nugget. In 1858, Ralston brought a group of prospectors back to the site of his first discovery. Farmers soon arrived in order to sell supplies to miners. The railroad was built through the area in 1870. The settlers, needing to establish a town so that the railroad stop could have a name, filed a town plat. The town was named Arvada after the brother-in-law of one of the settlers.

Arvada is located at 394912N, 105640W (39.819962, -105.110975)GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 85.1 km (32.8 mi). 84.6 km; (32.7 mi) of it is land and 0.5 km (0.2 mi) of it (0.58%) is water.

Arvada is northwest of nearby Denver, Colorado. By 2025, it will be the endpoint of the Gold Corridor in Denver's FasTracks commuter rail network.